I have always loved a good sandwich, making one is SIMPLE EASY and very DELICIOUS. Especially if you have the right ingredients to create a winner combination.

This is why for May, given my very hectic schedule studying for a board exam and submitting bids the recipe I chose is the perfect sandwich...something I'd like to call the MONSTER SANDWICH.

With Martin's current obsession with smoking meat and fish, our ref is full of his little backyard creations. One that I really highlighted for this recipe is his home-smoked bacon. Upon frying on a cast iron pan the smoky flavor and spice rub really makes this humble piece of meat shine!

Homemade smoked bacon

There is no perfect way to make a perfect sandwich. Sandwiches are highly personalized creations because it is based on your tastes and hungers. For this particular sand-wish I raded the ref for all the good stuff I'd think would go with the bacon. I came up with the ff:

Wheat bread

mustard

tomatoes, lettuce, cucumbers

Eden Cheese

Various spreads

egg

Now to assemble the MONSTER SANDWICH is all about layering. This is how I did it:

First, butter the bread and toast them. I decided to make a double-decker so that meant one sandwich had three slices

Prepare the veggies: slice the tomatoes and cucumbers, wash aand dry the lettuce

After toasting, I spread one piece with a little mustard layered the lettuce then tomatoes and finallly the cucumber. On top of this bed of greenery I added the smoked bacon.

On top of the bacon I placed another slice of bread liberally doused with whatever spreads you have at home (mint jelly, mayonaise, etc).

I had the egg cooked a-la scrambled style with a little Eden Cheese. Afterwhich I placed this on top of my second piece of toast.

To top off this killer sandwich I closed it with my last piece of toast on top of the scrambled egg.

up close and personal

Truth be told it was one hard sanwich to eat because it was so tall! But my target audience - aka my husband- loved it!! Since I had extra vegetables I decided to create a small side-salad. (Also because I wanted the dish to somewhat still be healthy despite the heart attack nature of the ingredients!)

It tasted so good that I had orders for the MONSTER SANDWICH from my mom the next day.

Final presentation: How can you resist?

So yes the perfect sandwich-- based on my opinion. Why not try making your own perfect sandwich? Be creative, go crazy and most of all enjoy your gastronomic works of art!